Word: ellie
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Anna Magnani is notably absent from the cast, but there is good evidence that she is not the only actress in Italy. Lea Padovani mixes all the called-for emotions successfully in the role of the poor girl, while rich girl Elli Parvo manages to appear callous and concerned at the same time. Victoria Duse, as the angular hero, casts his lot with the good people at the required moment, and portrays the true heroic metamorphosis...
...Kaputt. "Shortly after the [Russian] occupation Elli, Hanna and Margret were visited by [Red army] soldiers, who told them to go away with them immediately for three days' work ... Agnes would have been taken in the same way, but the Russians who came for her were apparently unnerved by the screams of the children who saw her going. Next day, however . . . she was arrested...
...Elli had a very hard journey. Her party was forced to walk for the first two days, and many of the women broke down and were left by the wayside, and Elli does not know their fate . . . The officer in charge said: "If you cannot get along, stay here and go 'kaputt...
Ohne Kraft. "The camps [in Russia] usually consisted of collections of wooden huts [sheds], which were in a filthy condition and overcrowded . . . Elli said that 18 of the prisoners with her died in one day . . . The women were classified according to their capacity to work . . . They were put in four groups . . . Those in the fourth group, called O.K. (ohne Kraft-without strength), were unfit for anything except cleaning and other chores in the camp...
...Agnes was put to work in a lime kiln . . . Ida and Margret . . . worked in a peat field . . . Elli worked in a coal mine . . . Emma was put to work in a tile factory. All the women stated that a specific amount of work known as the 'norm' had to be done each day ... In most cases good work guaranteed better food. All the women said that they were worked to their utmost capacity...